CheapOair :Flight Deals,Hotels
82
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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CheapOair :Flight Deals,Hotels is an iOS app from Fareportal Inc in the Travel category, currently rated 4.7★ across 92,124 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Travel app, that means strong product-market fit. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$1.6M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7M – $2.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0M – $3.8M
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
256 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
92,124 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.6M
Snapshots tracked
256
since Jun 2024
🤖Also on Android
$309/mo · 94K ratings · 4.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$210K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $160K – $285K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (149 MB) | +$39K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 15.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$92K |
Total estimate
$210K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$33.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25.0M – $43.0M · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~157× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 15.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
7.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
140K
Daily active
21K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Travel engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 📅 15.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 149 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Travel |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-21 · 17 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 17 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.6M – $2.1M
12 months
$1.7M – $2.6M
24 months
$2.0M – $3.8M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 57/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
6.2
Product Quality
9.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
6.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.74★ across 92,124 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $28.8M-$51.2M.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (92,124 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| intuitive designREVIEW | +$1,000 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v4.297.0
Up to $50 Off Your Next Booking!
We’ve upgraded our ClubMiles loyalty program to reward you even more! You can now unlock rewards and save up to $50 on your bookings. Saving on your favorite journeys has never been easier.… Full release notes →
We’ve upgraded our ClubMiles loyalty program to reward you even more! You can now unlock rewards and save up to $50 on your bookings. Saving on your favorite journeys has never been easier.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- CheapOair :Flight Deals,Hotels
- Developer
- Fareportal Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.fp.cheapoair
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Travel Tech. Human First.
- Description
- Fareportal is a New York-based hybrid travel company that operates a portfolio of B2C and B2B brands, including CheapOair and OneTravel. We drive global travel with advanced AI innovation and 24/7 human care.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $1.6M/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- x.com/Fareportal
- linkedin.com/company/fareportal/%20
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/Fareportal%20 · linkedin linkedin.com/company/fareportal/%20 · twitter x.com/Fareportal
- jlay@xenophonstrategies.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- fareportal.com/contact-us
- About page
- fareportal.com/about-us-overview
📈Ratings growth272,767 ratings+60922% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Better Deals. Bigger Rewards. Real People Ready to Help. Compare flights and fares from 500+ airlines, grab app-only travel deals, earn up to 6X ClubMiles Points, and get 24/7 support from real Travel Experts whenever you travel.
Whether you're planning a vacation, traveling for business, booking a spontaneous getaway, searching for last-minute flights, or visiting friends and family, CheapOair helps you travel smarter and save more with member-only benefits and intelligent travel tools.… View full description on the official store →
Whether you're planning a vacation, traveling for business, booking a spontaneous getaway, searching for last-minute flights, or visiting friends and family, CheapOair helps you travel smarter and save more with member-only benefits and intelligent travel tools.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 149 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v4.297.0🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
25 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 14 of 14 updated
2026-09
📈
Crossed 100,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v4.285.0 → v4.297.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$26.6K/mo · reviews +180,643 low · multiple changes
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: revenue +$26.6K/mo · reviews +180,643 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v4.281.0 → v4.285.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +9,422 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 7 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: revenue −$26.6K/mo · reviews −171,221 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.267.0 → v4.281.0
→ 30 days after: revenue −$20.9K/mo · reviews −166,228 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v4.265.0 → v4.267.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +6,043 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +6,043 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.64 → 4.80 (improved 2.16★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$20.8K/mo · rating +2.17★ · reviews +241,331 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$20.8K/mo · rating +2.17★ · reviews +241,331 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$20.8K/mo · rating +2.17★ · reviews +241,332 medium · co-occurring
2024-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ · reviews +23 medium · co-occurring
2024-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ · reviews +44 low · multiple changes
2024-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.13★ · reviews +21 high confidence
2024-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +44 high confidence
2024-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.87 → 2.25 (dropped 0.62★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.19★ · reviews +23 high confidence
2024-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.62★ · reviews +21 low · multiple changes
2024-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.62★ · reviews +21 low · multiple changes
2024-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.57 → 2.88 (improved 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.62★ · reviews +21 low · multiple changes
📸
Store Page History
29 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
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🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #44Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
deals app·#44🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.7641★ | 274,978 | 4.7641★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.59837★ | 864 | 4.59837★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.63084★ | 214 | 4.63084★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.67807★ | 292 | 4.67807★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.63351★ | 764 | 4.63351★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.69936★ | 28,200 | 4.69936★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.61216★ | 1,168 | 4.61216★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.75556★ | 405 | 4.75556★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.70722★ | 970 | 4.70722★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for CheapOair :Flight Deals,Hotels: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 99% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 92,124 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does CheapOair make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, CheapOair earns approximately $1.6M/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is CheapOair profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $210K and monthly revenue $1.6M, CheapOair looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does CheapOair have?▴
Estimated audience: ~7.0M lifetime downloads, ~140K monthly active users, and ~21K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like CheapOair?▴
Browse the full Travel category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is CheapOair built with?▴
Our heuristic places CheapOair on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is CheapOair still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 17 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would CheapOair sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $33.0M (marketplace range $25.0M – $43.0M). Calculated as 21× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was CheapOair last updated?▴
CheapOair last shipped a new version on 2026-09-21 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes CheapOair?▴
CheapOair is published by Fareportal Inc on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is CheapOair's BU Score?▴
CheapOair has a BU Score of 82/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.